Agency and communion: Their implications for gender stereotypes and gender identities

Agency and Communion in Social Psychology

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 103-116

  Sczesny, Sabine ^a   Nater, Christa ^a   Eagly, Alice H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203703663     Document Type: Chapter

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